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I hate golf. It’s the sport of Donald Trump. It’s the sport of environment trashing. It’s the sport of rightwing suburbia (Fidel Castro’s affection for the game was, I’m sure, just a case of knowing the enemy). And it’s a sport that’s really a leisure industry (though some of the outfits are rather dishy). But there is one too often neglected aspect of the game that even I have to…

Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is inactive for Sunday’s game against the Bills, meaning rookie Jacoby Brissett will his second straight start.  ESPN’s Adam Schefter first reported the news. Garoppolo injured his shoulder in Week 2 and missed last Thursday’s game against the Texans. Brissett is the only active quarterback, leaving wide receiver and former college quarterback Julian Edelman as the backup.  Brissett, a third-round pick from NC State, made his…

Joe Allen scored his first goal for Stoke in last weekend’s meeting with West Brom Stoke snatched a point at Manchester United as Joe Allen capitalised on a spill from David de Gea to punish the hosts’ lax first-half finishing. After a string of saves from Lee Grant before the break, United made the breakthrough when substitute Anthony Martial swept home a curling shot. It appeared to be a fatal…

It’s doubleheader day at Dover International Speedway, which will host both the NASCAR XFINITY and Sprint Cup Series on Sunday. The Drive Sober 200 XFINITY race originally slated for Saturday was rained out, so it will start this morning at 10 a.m., with the Citizen Soldier 400 Sprint Cup race going on as previously scheduled  at 2 p.m. Track officials announced that fans can stay and watch both races with…

  As news of the attack unfolded, NASCAR officials tried to find out if anybody in the industry was hurt or killed, a daunting task considering the dearth of information, the collapse of cell phone communications and how spread out the sport was. Some NASCAR officials had remained in Richmond, Virginia, following the previous race, and others worked at various locations across the country, including at a test in Kansas….

8:34 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment If you’re a careful reader, you’ll note the headline above reads “playoff baseball.” It’s not really playoff baseball yet, but it feels like it. Saturday’s games in St. Louis and San Francisco and Philadelphia and Seattle and New York and Boston were certainly filled with tension and drama. Four of those six games were decided in the eighth inning or later….

BOSTON – The retired numbers on display at Fenway Park invoke memories of Pedro Martinez (45), Carl Yastrzemski (8), Ted Williams (9) and other Boston Red Sox greats. Williams may have been the best of them all. But he was not the most valuable player ever to wear a Boston uniform. That man will play his final regular season game Sunday afternoon at Fenway. No one has meant more to…

2:19 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment If you’re a careful reader, you’ll note the headline above reads “playoff baseball.” It’s not really playoff baseball yet, but it feels like it. Saturday’s games in St. Louis and San Francisco and Philadelphia and Seattle and New York and Boston were certainly filled with tension and drama. Four of those six games were decided in the eighth inning or later….

BOSTON – The retired numbers on display at Fenway Park invoke memories of Pedro Martinez (45), Carl Yastrzemski (8), Ted Williams (9) and other Boston Red Sox greats. Williams may have been the best of them all. But he was not the most valuable player ever to wear a Boston uniform. That man will play his final regular season game Sunday afternoon at Fenway. No one has meant more to…

CLEMSON, S.C. — The first month of the college football season doubled as a highlight tape for the Louisville football program. There was Lamar Jackson leaping over helpless cornerbacks, connecting with streaking receivers and catapulting the Cardinals to unprecedented heights. Few teams have ever streaked into the national consciousness as violently and surprisingly as Louisville. It crashed the top five of the polls, emerged as a College Football Playoff darling…

T: TRUMP was NEVER labeled a racist by liberal media and crooked Hillary until his running for POTUS. DONALD TRUMP, as the Republican presidential candidate, is truly an OUTSIDER who goes against the corrupt PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS who have led USA on a wrong track of economic and military disadvantage for the last eight years. SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 WITH FAILED FOREIGN POLICY, USA has been…

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RELATED: Live weather updates | Weekend schedule After spotty rain affected events all day Saturday at Dover, NASCAR postponed the XFINITY Series’ Drive Sober 200 until 10 a.m. ET Sunday (CNBC, MRN, SIRIUS XM). The second race of the NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase was set to be the capstone to a day of action at Dover International Speedway. Fans with tickets to either race will be admitted for both. Tickets are available here. …

RELATED: See photos from Saturday’s rainy day at Dover   The XFINITY Series Dover race postponement — due to weather — left teams scrambling to assemble their lineups Saturday afternoon with playoff chances on the line.   Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contenders, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Austin Dillon were expected to perform double-duty, but with both races now on Sunday, teams had to reassemble its lineups so…

RELATED: Chase Grid | Sunday’s full lineup DOVER, Del. — The track that has brought Jimmie Johnson so much success is also the site of one of his biggest disappointments. It was here at year ago at Dover International Speedway that Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet was felled by a broken axle seal, relegating the Hendrick Motorsports driver to a 41st-place finish. RECAP: What plagued Johnson at Dover last year One…

Half the beauty of high school sports is being able to see athletes at their genesis: think Valor Christian’s Christian McCaffrey before he became a Heisman Trophy front-runnner, or Mountain Vista’s Mal Pugh before she ascended to soccer stardom on the U.S. Women’s National Team. But what if the best athletes in their respective sports didn’t play for their local high school? What if we missed that first fleeting look…

Did you hear that? I think that loud screaming you heard was Knoxville celebrating the latest Tennessee comeback win. After falling behind 17-0 in the game, Tennessee closed out the game on a 34-14 run, stealing the game from the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens with a Hail Mary pass from Joshua Dobbs to Jauan Jennings. If you listen closely, you can hear a lone voice screaming “OMAHAAAAAAAAAAA!” This is the Volunteers…

RELATED: Chase Grid | Sunday’s full lineup DOVER, Del. — The track that has brought Jimmie Johnson so much success is also the site of one of his biggest disappointments. It was here at year ago at Dover International Speedway that Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet was felled by a broken axle seal, relegating the Hendrick Motorsports driver to a 41st-place finish. RECAP: What plagued Johnson at Dover last year One…

Michigan defensive back Jourdan Lewis made a ridiculous one-handed catch to intercept Wisconsin quarterback Alex Hornibrook and seal a 14–7 victory. Lewis was back covering wide receiver George Rushing, and as he fell to the ground he reached up to get the ball with his right hand. He then puled it into his body to complete the catch, as Rushing tried to deny that he had possession. How he didn’t drop…